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Harris Will Name VP This Morning

Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign is expected to officially announce her running mate sometime Tuesday morning, followed by a campaign video that will be released before their Philadelphia rally the same day, according to multiple people familiar with the selection process. Politico first reported the campaign's plans.

Monday night, Harris had not made a final decision, according to a source familiar with the process. Her team has printed multiple versions of campaign signs for Tuesday night's rally with her name alongside the different top contenders to be prepared for whomever she chooses.

At some point Tuesday, Harris will call all the finalists to inform them of her decision before it's made public.

Harris met Sunday in Washington with at least three finalists: Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota. After the running-mate announcement, which is expected to include several online components, including a video, Harris and her newly minted election partner plan to launch a multistate tour with a rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday night.

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 @CommittedIguanaGreen from Utah  commented…9mos9MO

Forget the no matter who. Harris has my support right up to the choice of VP. If it is Shapiro.. then no. He is too close to AIPAC, and I notice AIPAC has been very successful in manipulating the press and the government. Evidence : we have become genocide supporters in the eyes of the world. America has never before been a genocide supporter.. both sides and government somehow ignore the popular will.. why would they do that - who are they serving?

 @EnergeticLobbyDemocratfrom Oregon  disagreed…9mos9MO

Antisemitism has no place in the Democratic party. Walz and Kelly have similar positions on the Gaza conflict -- as does Harris for that matter -- but you single out Shapiro for some reason...hmmm, very curious. I wonder why that would be?

 @FalconJasmineDemocrat from Texas  commented…9mos9MO

The best thing about the non stop KH coverage is there is ZERO mention of 'he who will not be named'.

And you know it's driving him nuts!!

 @HedgehogBrandonSocialist from Connecticut  agreed…9mos9MO

I hear they're delivering ketchup to Mar-A-Lago in tanker trucks.

 @DearPartisanLibertarianfrom Minnesota  commented…9mos9MO

The Republicans should have dumped Trump and picked Nikki Haley. This was a huge mistake.

 @CheerfulCowDemocrat from Texas  commented…9mos9MO

Harris has spend her life fighting crime in America. Running against Trump is merely another example of her fighting crime.

 @P4ndaEleanorDemocratfrom Texas  commented…9mos9MO

Kelly makes the most sense, IMO, his resume is unmatched, he brings AZ, he brings Independents, he puts Harris on offense on the border (especially against Trump killing the bi-partisan border legislation). But, Shapiro is the statistical choice, for PA.

That said, I'm fine with any of the proposed candidates. You should be too - they are all great people, and we need to stay unified.

 @BatBillDemocrat from Georgia  commented…9mos9MO

This election is it. Either our democracy survives, or it doesn't. Vote blue, no matter who.

 @PitifulSeagullWomen’s Equalityfrom Kentucky  commented…9mos9MO

Harris has half a dozen campaign stops this week across the country.

Trump has one.

That’s ok, old man. She’ll take it from here.

 @OutlyingGatoradeGreenfrom Wisconsin  commented…9mos9MO

Sources have said it's now down between Gov. Tim Walz and Gov. Josh Shapiro. I think in the end it's Walz as Shapiro brings too much baggage with his pro Israel views.

 @ISIDEWITHasked…9mos9MO

If you were running for President, what would be the deciding factor for you in choosing your Vice President?

 @ISIDEWITHasked…9mos9MO

Should a VP pick be more about balancing the ticket geographically and politically, or finding someone with aligned visions and policies?

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Supreme Court Clears The Way For Trump Sentencing

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…5mos5MO

Chaos in Europe: Germany’s Government Collapses As Trump Returns

Germany’s coalition government collapsed on Wednesday after Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance minister Christian Lindner, plunging the eurozone’s largest economy into political chaos hours after Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election.Scholz told reporters he would table a confidence vote in parliament on January 15, which most observers expect him to lose. That will pave the way for snap elections in March.Lindner’s sacking and the departure of his pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) from the government brings the curtain down on a deeply unpopular coalition that had become a byword for discord and acrimony.It leaves a void at the heart of Europe just as concern is growing in EU capitals over what a second Trump presidency will mean for transatlantic relations.Germany and the rest of Europe now face a long period of uncertainty they can ill-afford as they brace for a trade war with the US while trying to fend off a growing economic threat from China.In a blistering statement delivered in the chancellery, Scholz blamed Lindner for the breakdown of the government, calling him “selfish” and “irresponsible”. He said he “cared only about his own clientele and the short-term survival of his own party”.The trigger for Lindner’s dismissal was a dispute over next year’s budget. The three coalition partners — Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), Lindner’s FDP and the Greens — could not agree on how to plug a €9bn hole in spending plans ahead of a meeting of parliament’s budget committee next week.However, the conflict became overlaid with deeper ideological divisions over how to deal with Germany’s economic downturn and how much public debt the government is legally allowed to raise.Scholz said he had asked Lindner to agree to loosen Germany’s “debt brake”, a cap on new borrowing which is enshrined in the constitution and which the SPD and Greens have long wanted to reform.That would have allowed Germany to take on more debt and so boost its support for Ukraine, at a time when fears are growing Trump might cut aid to Kyiv once installed in the White House.Scholz said he had also proposed capping network charges to bring down energy prices for industrial companies, creating incentives for businesses to invest, and passing a package of measures to safeguard jobs in the car industry, which faces more competition from China.

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